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i pretty much love a bit of arrogance, and so with that in mind heres some kain quotes off the top of my head

"Vae victous,'Suffering to the conquered'. ironic now that i was the one suffering. nothing as pedestrian as pain but rather a cruel jab of impotent anger. the hunger for revenge." -Kain (Blood Omen)

"Given the choice: whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire, or to challenge the fates for another throw, a better throw against one's destiny; what was a king to do? But does one ever truly have a choice? One can only match move by move the machinations of fate, and thus defy the tyrannous stars." -Kain (Defiance)

"False God - this is the end - the final turn of your Wheel." -Kain (SUPRISE!) to eldar god.

and one off the wwe :"my muscles ache, my mind is spent, my body broken. lead me to my throne." -i love this quote because it neatly sums up the whole thang about a champion sacrificing all to achieve the throne. which is pretty much all he has left now that his body is wasted. great warrior is now bitter old man.

Normally, I delete bump posts after they have been commented upon... or the thread has been commented on. I think I will leave this batch. Thank you Kinslayer, I have once again been quoted from one of my left field quotes on a page. Is it never my words of wisdom, it is always something silly I have said.

"When you get down to it, it is all about the stealing, breaking, and killing."Quoted terribly out of context when we were discussing what game mechanics we need for games.

"Rules? We don't need no stinking rules! True. We need good rules, not bad smelly rules, you stupid putz!"Told in all caps to some smart ass that quoted the Blazing Saddles quotes saying that we did not need any rules in games... latter we were discussing GOD MODDING and he realized that was a rule

"I have rule books, that I am still using, that are older than you."That has become a sig line around here and has been posted on a few sites.

"I like rules. They actually make me think about what I should do, before I go and do what I want anyways."Discussing rules vs stories somewhere

"When it comes down to it, I will take the die roll over your dramatic decision any day"In response to a player who thought he was too good/ cool to bother with mechanics in a game. He was one of the worst players I had ever encountered

"Thank you for making Bruce look good."Same conversation, Bruce C being the worst players I have ever gamed with on a semi-regular basis. Is now a Sig Line for a couple of people... I assume they are named Bruce

"Thank you. Your game makes Enterprise look good."Commenting on how bad someone's game is. If you like Enterprise, sorry. Insert "Greatest American Hero (if playing a superheroic game), The DnD Movie (If doing fantasy), or Beast Master the Movie, if it makes you feel better.

# Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

# People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

# We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like. ---Alfred Hitchcock

# "When you meet the unbelievers in jihad [holy war], chop off their heads. And when you have brought them low, bind your prisoners rigorously. Then set them free or take ransom from them until the war is ended." (Koran, 47:40)

# "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be to be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and genitals cut off, or to be expelled out of the land. Such will be their humiliation in the world, and in the next world they will face an awful horror." (Koran, 5:33-34)

# "When we decide to destroy a population, we send a definite order to them who have the good things in life and yet sin. So that Allah's word is proven true against them, then we destroy them utterly." (Koran, 17:16-17)

# "How many were the populations we utterly destroyed because of their sins, setting up in their place other peoples." (Koran, 21:11)

# The thief, Black Leaf, did not find the poison trap, and I declare her dead. ----Dark Dungeons

# NO, NOT BLACK LEAF! NO, NO! I'M GOING TO DIE! ----Dark Dungeons

# Marcie, get out of here. YOUR'RE DEAD! You don't exist any more. ----Dark Dungeons

Thomas Frey is the Executive Director, Founder, and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute. His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from top levels of government to executives in Fortune 100 companies.

Considered by his peers to be the "most creative futurist on the planet", Tom continually pushes the envelope of understanding, creative fascinating images of the world to come.

"He who controls the weather, will control the world. He who controls gravity, will control the universe. He who controls time, will never be around." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute

"Sometime between 2010 and 2020 it will become clear that human beings are no longer the smartest things on earth. This will be profoundly disturbing for many." - Glen Hiemstra - Futurist.Com

"Cloned dinosaurs will once again walk the planet." - Watts Wacker - CEO and Futurist, First Matter

Demographic Trends

"Somewhere on planet earth lives a young child who will be the first person to liveÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¦forever." - Glen Hiemstra -Futurist.Com

Provocative Questions

"The year is 2050, and you are standing in front of a vending machine. What form of payment will you put into it?" - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute

"People who live to be 65 today in the United States live an average of an additional 18 years. Over the first two decades of the 21st Century, because of advances in health care, nutrition, exercise, wealth, and biotechnologies of various kinds, this average will increase toward 30 years, then 40 years after age 65. How will we reinvent the third phase of life now called retirement?" - Glen Hiemstra -Futurist.Com

"If you were on the jury trying to decide the fate of a murderous criminal, and you had the choice to decide between sending him to the electric chair or to a sentence of total amnesia, which would you decide?" - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute

Miscellaneous

"Technology that allows us to view past events will become the most important tool ever invented for criminal investigations." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute

"The age of reason has ended, and now we must organize around chaos." - Watts Wacker - CEO and Futurist, First Matter

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œPower is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬? - Harriet Ruben - Founder Doubleday/Currency Book Publisher

This couplet, which echos fundamental taoist concepts, was made famous by Bruce Lee. It is carved on his tomb stone.

Yi wu fa wei you fa. Yi wu xian wei you xian"Having no way as the way. Having no limitation as your limitation.

A few more quotes I like: I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. LEARN, MASTER AND ACHIEVE!!! Bruce Lee

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. Bruce Lee

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. Bruce Lee

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly" and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.Bruce Lee

The tools are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference, moving and yet not moving, in tension and yet relaxed, seeing everything happening and yet not at all anxious about its outcome, with nothing purposely designed, nothing consciously calculated, no anticipation, no expectation - in short, standing innocently like a baby and yet, with all the cunning, subterfuge and keen intelligence of a fully mature mind. Bruce Lee

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. Bruce Lee

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.Bruce Lee

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.Bruce Lee

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.Bruce Lee

There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. Bruce Lee

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.Bruce Lee

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.Bruce Lee

The best lies contain some truth, so get your d**** facts straight. Her majesty

"I'm a lawyer, I'm a professional, don't lie like this at home." Her majestry

"I hate phone calls from you. It always means that something bad is happening and our lives are about to be on the line... The annoying part is even if we don't go and fix it, our lives are still on the line and there is nothing we can do about it." MoonHunter

"Oh yah, right. I called you. Well I had one of those feelings." MoonHunter

"Oh course I am calling Bear. He is a big target and always draws fire away from me." MoonHunter

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon (1947-2003)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" - Bumper Sticker

"God, please save me from your followers!" - Bumper Sticker

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Wit is educated insolence." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny." - Guy Davenport

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

"I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann (1903-1957)

"The mistakes are all waiting to be made." - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"What do you take me for, an idiot?" - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon." - Bill Hirst

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." - Karl Wallenda

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." - Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hell is paved with good samaritans." - William M. Holden

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Silence is argument carried out by other means." - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729)

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." - Helen Rowland (1876-1950)

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." - Lewis Perelman

"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency." - Lewis Perelman

"Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal." - Sigfried Hulzer

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

"I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" - Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" " - Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy." - Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra

"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." - Bill Wulf

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.

"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

- More quotations on: [Politics] Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers

- More quotations on: [War] The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. Will Rogers

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. Will Rogers

- More quotations on: [Gossip] There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Will Rogers

- More quotations on: [Government] [Humor] This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. Will Rogers

- More quotations on: [Congress] We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogers

- More quotations on: [Heroes] We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. Will Rogers

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. Will Rogers, 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924

- More quotations on: [Gossip] There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"

- More quotations on: [Politics] The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"

- More quotations on: [Taxes] [Golf] Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"

MoonHunter: Sometimes the old traditional path is important and symbolic and sometimes it is just old.

MoonHunter: Write or Write NOT, there is no Try.

MoonHunter: Write or Write NOT, I do not care. Just stop calling yourself a writer until you write.

MoonHunter: JUST DO IT! MoonHunter: Yes, life is a Nike commercial.

MoonHunter: All you really need to do in life is breath, everything else is negotiable.

MoonHunter: Since life is really that simple, you might as well do it right.Re: rhythmic breathing exercises

MoonHunter: There are three professions a wise man should not do: Magician, Game Designer, and Used Car Salesman. Unfortunately for me, I have been all three. (feel free to insert Writer in the place of Game Designer)

Some more fun ones.....MoonHunter: Another dark dingy lair? Can't we ever track monsters to Hawaii or someplace nice?

MoonHunter: Of course there are monsters in the real world. Haven't you every baby sat several children at once?

Curious: What is the difference between a serial killer and a monster?MoonHunter: The serial killer scares me. or MoonHunter: The serial killer is covered in Time and Newsweek, monster is covered in The National Inquirer and The Star. Really that is the only difference. ...The serial killer is more evil than most monsters.

MoonHunter: Who thought one of duties of an Adept would be antiquing in the back country and stopping at every estate sale?

Curious: Why do wizards always live in creepy old houses far away from people? MoonHunter: Well it has something to do with the demons that occasionally escape... Your average home owners association frowns upon that.

Curious: Why are wizards all so rich?MoonHunter: It is not from the pay, I will tell you that.

Curious: No really, why are wizards all so rich?MoonHunter: We don't get out much, so we save all that money that you would spend on concerts, clubs, drinks, movies, dates, personal electronics, fashionable clothing, and so on. After a few decades, it really adds up.

Curious: You're a member of the Country Club?MoonHunter: Well a few well placed precognitive stock tips, a little blackmail, and sure anyone can get in. Besides, somebody has to run the dungeon they have beneith this place.

MoonHunter: Grunt. Isn't this why we occasionally make thick strong guys apprentices... even through they don't have a lick of talent." While lifting some furniture

Curious: What is the difference between a serial killer and a monster?MoonHunter: The serial killer scares me. or MoonHunter: The serial killer is covered in Time and Newsweek, monster is covered in The National Inquirer and The Star. Really that is the only difference. ...The serial killer is more evil than most monsters.

I'm still trying to find the difference between pc's and serial killers (re: the index for Death: The Pale Horse)

Movies are just like life, with all the boring parts cut out.Alfred Hitchcock

Games are just like Movies, except you have to participate.MoonHunter

After giving a spew of links and game related information, just what the person needed.

"Did anyone every mention you are a God?""It has been mentioned before..."

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One man's magic is another man's engineering. Supernatural is a null word. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

An armed society is a polite society. -Beyond This Horizon

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe. -Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -Professor Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. -still searchinÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Learning isn't a means to an end; it's an end in and of itself. -still searchin

brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. -that also sounds like Lazarus

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.) -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

First, what is it you want us to pay taxes for? Tell me what I get and perhaps I'll buy it. -Manuel Kelly, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, withouT a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglas

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglas

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Frederick Douglas

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglas

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed. Frederick Douglas

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. Frederick Douglas

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. Frederick Douglas

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Frederick Douglas

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. Frederick Douglas

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. Frederick Douglas

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed; the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! Frederick Douglas

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglas

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglas

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglas

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglas

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. Frederick Douglas

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglas

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglas